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Kurzel's statement about using the 1950s as a setting


Justin Kurzel expressed interest in having an Assassin's Creed movie delve into the U.S. during the 1950s. This apparently would involve having the ancestor portion of the film be set in that time, with the "modern" part being set less than a century afterwards. Kurzel's statement was not a guarantee of where a potential sequel might be set, but what do you think of this option? Setting aside the issue of whether a sequel to this movie is a realistic possibility or not, would you like to see the early Cold War in an AC movie?

A huge number of people want to see a greater focus on the premodern historical segments. It is commonly argued that the ancestor part should be at least 50% of the total movie. Using the early Cold War as a historical setting would have an advantage in terms of making it even easier to connect the predecessor and the descendent. However, it would have the disadvantage of sacrificing a chance to use a more distant epoch in favor of one that is much closer in its characteristics to the contemporary modern part.

Many people want to see a movie based directly on Altair, Ezio, or another character from the series, but if, hypothetically, there were to be a continuation of this movie's story, what would you like to see? What percentage of the movie would you want to focus on the past? Whether or not there will be a chance for this to happen is, of course, a separate matter.

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